Viatora Coccaleo was an Italian Capuchin

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

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 theologian.

Works

For a time he was lector in theology. Among his works are:

• "Tentamina theologico-scholastica" (Bergamo, 1768–74);
• "Tentaminum theologicorum in moralibus Synopsis" (Venice, 1791);
• "Instituta moralia" (Milan, 1760).

His defence of papal supremacy

Papal supremacy

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, "Italus ad Justinum Febronium" (Lucca, 1768; Trent, 1774), is one of the principal apologies against Febronius. Besides writing several works against Jansenism

Jansenism

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, he took part in the discussion concerning the devotion to the Sacred Heart

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 and the sanctification of Holy Days, made famous by the Synod of Pistoia

Synod of Pistoia

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 (1786), and published:

• "Riflessioni sopra l'origine e il fine della divozione del S. Cuore di Gesù" (Naples, 1780);
• "Riposta sul dubbio, se la sola Messa basti a santificare le feste" (Bologna, 1781);
• Studies on the text and meaning of the poem of Prosper of Aquitaine
  Prosper of Aquitaine
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  , "Contra Ingratos" (2 vols., Brescia, 1756 and 1763)
• A work on the philosophic spirit of Prosper's epigrams (Brescia, 1760).